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| Walter Crane |
| 1845-1915 |
| European Artist |
| Crane was born in Liverpool, moving to London with his family in 1857. After a period during which he worked on illustrations for a poem of Tennyson, he apprenticed with the famous wood engraver William James Linton and studied drawing in his spare time. In 1862 he exhibited The Lady of Shalott at the Royal Academy. Crane's reputation as an artist continued to grow and was recognized as a talented book illustrator. In the 1870s Crane mainly worked on children's books but he also had paintings accepted by the Royal Academy and had several exhibitions in London Art Galleries. Crane's later watercolors of slightly menacing wooded landscapes and vague but sinister mythical events represent a world which the artist has dreamt of rather than visited. |
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